Articles by Eleanor Stratton

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Senate Passed The Bill That Will Change Your Paycheck and Your Healthcare

It happened in the quiet, pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning, after a grueling all-night session of deal-making and debate. By the slimmest possible margin, the U.S. Senate passed a massive piece of legislation that will touch nearly every aspect of American life. For some, the bill’s passage...

Why A 35-Year-Old Death Penalty Case Qualifies For Retrial Now

The Constitution’s guarantee of a fair trial has no expiration date. For more than three decades, a man has sat on Alabama’s death row for the murder of a county sheriff. This week, a federal court declared that his trial was fundamentally unfair—not because of new evidence of innocence, but...

From Gun Silencers to a Space Shuttle: A Look at 7 Lesser-Known Provisions in the Final Trump Bill

As the President signs his so-called “big, beautiful bill” into law this Fourth of July, the national conversation will rightly focus on its massive, agenda-setting provisions. But to truly understand the nature of this legislation and the government that created it, we must look beyond the...

Inside the Last-Minute Drama, Defections, and Deals of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” Bill

As America heads toward Independence Day, President Donald Trump’s sweeping “One Big Beautiful Bill” is barreling toward passage—despite last-minute rebellions, behind-the-scenes deal-cutting, and a marathon “vote-a-rama” that has kept the Capitol in a near-frenzy. If the Senate...

A Predictable Retaliation: Iranian Missiles Hit American Air Base

Ballistic missiles, fired from Iran, have now targeted a major American air base in Qatar. While the attack was successfully intercepted and resulted in no U.S. casualties, any sense of relief is dangerously premature. The physical damage may be zero, but the damage to our constitutional order is...

Liberty, Equality… and Gender Identity: The Constitution and Transgender Rights

⬇️ Join the conversation and make your voice be heard. At the center of today’s fiercest political and cultural fault lines lies a question the framers of the Constitution never saw coming: How does an 18th-century charter of governance grapple with 21st-century understandings of identity? As...

The Court’s Controversial Choice On Youth Gender Care

This week, the Supreme Court was tasked with resolving a conflict that strikes at the heart of America’s most profound constitutional debates. On one side stood the 14th Amendment’s promise of equal protection for all persons. On the other, the sovereign power of a state to regulate medicine...

A Lesson on the Spending Clause: A Court Reminds the President of His Limits

Our Constitution creates a deliberate and often tense balance of power. Congress is given the “power of the purse,” deciding how federal money is spent. The President, in turn, is tasked with faithfully executing the laws. But what happens when a President uses the money Congress allocated for...

The 25th Amendment on Trial: A Proposal to Reinvent Presidential Removal

A provocative new proposal from Representative Darrell Issa is forcing a national conversation about one of the most sensitive and critical parts of our constitutional order: the 25th Amendment. In the wake of revelations about a potential “cover-up” of former President Biden’s declining...

A Tale of Two Independence Days: The Promise of July 4th and the Reckoning of Juneteenth

  America has two days that celebrate independence. One commemorates the birth of a nation; the other, the liberation of its people. One is the articulation of a promise; the other, the beginning of its painful and long-overdue delivery. The Fourth of July and Juneteenth are not competing...

A War for the Soul of America

There is a war being waged for the soul of America. It is not being fought with guns and cannons, but in our children’s classrooms. It is a battle over our very identity, a coordinated effort to tear down our heroes, slander our founding, and teach a new generation to be ashamed of their own...

Tanks and Troops Mark Army’s 250th Amidst Public Debate

Seventy-ton M1A2 Abrams tanks are rolling down the streets of Washington, D.C. Thousands of soldiers—some in modern combat gear, others in the historic uniforms of the Revolutionary War—are marching in formation. Above, helicopters and warplanes cut through the sky as Army parachutists descend...

In a significant turn of events, tens of thousands of Americans protested in cities across the nation against President Donald Trump's military parade and his return to the presidency. The demonstrations, dubbed "No Kings," reflect a fundamental American principle dating back to 1776: that no...

Lincoln’s Warning: Is America More Divided Today Than It Was 167 Years Ago?

On this day, June 16, in 1858, a lawyer from Illinois named Abraham Lincoln accepted the Republican nomination for Senate and delivered one of the most consequential speeches in American history. He warned a nation already fracturing under the pressure of slavery that a “house divided against...

A Judge, A President, and a Prison in El Salvador

This is not a mere procedural dispute. It is a profound conflict over a simple but vital question: Does the Constitution have an off-switch? Can the executive branch extinguish a person’s right to due process simply by placing them on a plane and flying them beyond our borders? The temporary stay...

A judge rules the President’s deployment “illegal,” but an appeals court overturns it hours later.

In a tense courtroom on Thursday, the raw conflict between executive power and judicial review was laid bare. A federal judge, holding up a pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution, declared President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles to be “illegal.” Hours later, an appeals...

When a Senator’s Question Becomes a Precedent for Arrest

A United States senator, on the floor and in handcuffs. This is the stark image that now defines the fraught relationship between the legislative and executive branches. The forcible removal of Senator Alex Padilla from a press conference held by the Secretary of Homeland Security is not merely a...

A poor European country may be paid to accept 50 migrants deemed inadmissible by the United States

The Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement has taken a new turn—this time across the Atlantic. In a quietly unfolding international deal, the small Balkan nation of Kosovo has agreed to temporarily host up to 50 deported migrants from the United States over the next year. The...

California Sues Trump Over National Guard Deployment Amid L.A. Unrest

California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging the federalization and deployment of the California National Guard to Los Angeles without state consent. The legal action follows President Donald Trump’s decision to...